Course Details

Finance I

Finance 1 covers managers' and investors' most fundamental finance decision: how to value a project or an asset. Managers must determine the value of building a factory, entering a new market, or purchasing an entire firm when deciding in which projects to invest. Similarly, individuals must assess the value of financial securities to decide how to invest their wealth. Finance 1 teaches methods for valuing projects or assets. These valuation tools lay the foundation for all work in capital markets and corporate finance. Law students will be able to better understand the decision-making of their clients, participate in the multidisciplinary teams necessary to execute complex transactions, and assess financial issues arising in litigation, regulation, and other contexts. Prerequisites The prerequisites for this course are knowledge of probability and statistics through linear regression and accounting. These requirements may be satisfied with: - Business Analytics or other sufficient previous course work in statistics and econometrics. By the sixth week in the term, it is important that you know how to run a regression, preferably in Excel. One of the cases we will study requires you to run regressions and you may be expected to run a regression on your final exam. -Either (i) Accounting for Decision-making or (ii) sufficient previous course work in basic financial accounting. Students are expected to be familiar with basic accounting such as creating income statements and balance sheets. Students should understand how to calculate means, variances, and correlations from a set of data and should understand how to run and interpret linear regressions JDMBA students are not permitted to take this class at the law school, but must take it in their 2J year at Kellogg. Students may not earn credit for Finance I and Corporate Finance. Evaluation: Class participation, problem sets and projects, and final exam.

Catalog Number: BUSCOM 640

Additional Course Information: Class meets using University Calendar

Course History

Spring 2024
Title: Finance I
Faculty:
Section: 1 Credits: 2.5
Capacity: 30 Actual: 6

Spring 2022
Title: Finance I
Faculty: Jiang, Zhengyang
Section: 1 Credits: 2.5
Capacity: 30 Actual: 1